NASA's decades - long success at enabling ground - breaking discoveries about our planet, our solar system, our galaxy, our origins and the billions of
other planets out there is one of the crown jewels of our nation's collective inventiveness and will, and surely of our global soft power.
I really wondered if there were
other planets out there.»
Debra Fischer: One of the questions in the beginning was «Are there
other planets out there?»
He goes on to note the more recent discoveries that have been made including finding flowing water on Mars, signs of ice on one of Jupiter's moons,
other planets out in the distance and a high - resolution mapping of Pluto.
Not exact matches
«One Strange Rock,» a National Geographic television series that debuted on March 26th, sets
out to show viewers what makes the Earth unique among
other planets in the solar system, and the conditions it took to foster life on the
planet.
In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing
other planets probably won't bring
out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:
But in sharing detailed images of giant rockets, spaceships, fuel pods, and
other crucial components of his Interplanetary Transportation System (ITS), Musk left
out some important stuff, including where he plans to fit 100 to 200 passengers on each trip to the red
planet.
Next, if you take the lowest estimate of how many of those Sun - like stars have an Earth - like
planet orbiting it (22 %), that means about 100 billion billion
other Earth - like
planets are
out there.
This lady hasn't done any real homework — 1 Christian ever 4 minutes was killed in 2009 I believe, on the
other side of the
planet - Hindu's kill Christians in India, the Chinese church is underground because of it's ban on Christianity, Russia killed thousands in it's atheist conquest, Indochina the Muslims decapitate Christians... Do your own homework, find
out, and look for sources that don't share your bias
As
others have pointed
out, he was talking about panspermia, the idea that «life could spread from
planet to
planet, or from stellar system to stellar system, carried on meteors.»
Crimes must be punished, no matter who perpetrates them, but at the end of the day we'd better start figuring
out how to share this one
planet with each
other.
And when you think
others are stupid to be «religious», how stupid are you to limit yourself to this one
planet, when there are billions up there, all connected by God's Galactic Internet, no big bang, no beginning, no end, forever, billions of souls traveling the ever - changing universe, in and
out of various human - like bodies, on and off of different earth - like
planets.
To even question it will get you into trouble in a lot of circles... Martyn Shenstone and
others have written exceptional studies demonstrating the dishonesty of this model... add this to the fact that this all happens where the richest 5 % of the
planet are (which you are as well) and it is really
out of whack...
The
other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis»
Out of the Silent
Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)
For example, William Paley, already in 1802, in his treatise Natural Theology, pointed
out that if the law of gravity had not been a so «called «inverse square law» then the earth and the
other planets would not be able to remain in stable orbits around the sun.
If a mother can be arrested for leaving her child in a car, never
out of her sight, for three minutes on a freezing day while her
other children put money in a Salvation Army bucket — well, if someone were to write a story, now, about children allowed to sail and camp alone for an entire summer, and stay
out all night on the water, those children would have to possess supernatural powers or inhabit another
planet, and the story would be labeled «fantasy.»
I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get
out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any
other nation on the
planet.
If religious people stay
out of politics and
other aspects of public interest then I would say they are free to do as they please, but when they want to push their beliefs on the rest us and completely disregard the facts at the expense of our health and our
planet then they become dangerous and must be challenged.
What you are wasting is a lot of time and energy on being angry at
others, hating anyone who isn't JUST LIKE YOU, and waiting to die so you can gather your reward in heaven... all the while you are missing
out on a wonderful life, right here, on this
planet.
Who knows, there might be
other life forms
out there on
planets with differnt types of suns,
other types of atmosphere, maybe even based on something
other than carbon... Religion can't answer those questions, but science, ever so slowly, is plugging away at the answers.
While all we know life can live on is earth like
planets, there's nothing to rule
out life living on
other types of
planets.
Watch
out for global warming and
other ways you are destroying the only
planet I created for you.
Im getting older now and had a religious catholic upbringing in a convent so you cant take the catholic
out of the girl, but I have a brain and know that there may be something else, an energy, aliens coming first and mating early, metiors bringing the things necessary for life from
other planets, anything.
As another example, if the relationship between the strengths of the gravitational force and the electromagnetic force were not close to what it is, then the cosmos would not harbor any stars that explode and spew
out life - supporting chemical elements into space or any
other stars that form
planets.
For the sake of the people, for the sake of the poor, for the sake of the Gospel, for the sake of the
planet, I'm begging you to maintain this group, to build this group, to speak
out as a group, to challenge your own as well as the
others, to see your contribution to Christianity as the spiritual globalization of the seven capital sins.
It's rough
out there in nature, whether in the wilds of a rain forest or an urban jungle, partly because the earth is jammed with devout human predators unlike all
others: we not only kill for food, we kill each
other along with the natural forces nourishing life on this
planet.
On the
other hand, it is not the Christian idea that in the temporal end alone — on this
planet where our little mortal lives are lived
out — there will come the grand culmination of all things.
They are much smaller, dimmer and cooler than stars like our Sun, and for a long time scientists searching for life on
other worlds paid little attention to them; the general feeling was that they gave
out so little heat and light, compared with the Sun, that they were unlikely to host habitable
planets.
In those words, and the words of many
others, I think we can see the outline of an ethic that avoids self - indulgence yet does not deny the physical facts of a
planet with 6 billion people who may soon nearly double their numbers — a
planet that grows hotter, stormier and less stable by the day, a
planet where huge swaths of God's creation are being wiped
out by the one species told to tend this particular garden.
One insignificant
planet orbiting one insignificant star
out of billions, in one insignificant galaxy
out of billions of
other galaxies, and we are somehow the sole focus of a greater being that by all accounts has not had any provable direct communication with mankind, ever?
[1] Most of the collapsing mass collected in the centre, forming the Sun, while the rest flattened into a protoplanetary disk
out of which the
planets, moons, asteroids, and
other small Solar System bodies formed.»
As Taylor documents, over 2 million people are incarcerated in the U.S., which works
out to a per capita rate up to ten times higher than most
other countries on the
planet, including China and Russia.
In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret
out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked
out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something
other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the
planets circling
other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.
Out of the billions of
other planets in the universe, the one true god happens to center around Earth during our lifetimes.
Yet if the Earth is only one
out of 8.8 billion
other planets, each neatly zoned around a friendly home sun, surely one or more is home to ET.
Rovelli points
out that humans have always observed that the stars, the moon, the
planets, etc, continually revolve around us, so it should follow that «below us» is nothing; in
other words, the sky is not just over our head, it's also under our feet.
To this day Sambazon is the ONLY Fair Trade Certified açaí (which is a lot more in depth and different than 1 % For the
Planet and many pay to play certifications
other brands have), and is the only vertically integrated company on the market, ensuring the highest quality, and premium açaí
out there, and has protected millions of acres of Amazon Rainforest to this day, by providing 20,000 family farmers with employment from sustainable harvesting of açaí fruit.
Find
out how
planets and moons orbit each
other by wearing a Sun, Moon or Earth hat and walking around each
other.
Maybe they can do that on
Planet Boob where most of the lactivists hide
out, but here in the real world, most nursing women have
OTHER CHILDREN.
Also people always blame the diet for everything — a raw vegan diet brings
out peoples weaknesses while they are detoxing, people who do nt understand detox and genetic weakness see these symtoms as the diet being wrong... WHAT could possibly be wrong with feeding your body with natural foods as they were made by nature, like every
other animal on the
planet...?
The only
other group on the
planet who could back
out of a position as fast as the GOP Senators would be the Democratic Senators.
Carr and the
other research team members set
out to study the protoplanetary disk around a star known as HD 100546, and as sometimes happens in scientific inquiry, it was by «chance» that they stumbled upon the formation of the
planet orbiting this star.
«One of the most startling discoveries about
other planetary systems has been that the most common type of
planet out there has a mass between that of Earth and that of Neptune,» says Batygin.
However, if your goal is to see stars,
planets, galaxies and
other celestial objects then the best time to bring
out your telescope is when the moon is new or young (i.e. as dark as possible).
If these nanotubes could be customized to distinguish
other gases, many of them could be placed on a single device, creating a «nose on a chip» that could ferret
out pollutants or analyze the atmospheres of
other planets.
They have been looking for signs of
planets around
other stars, but also discarding false signals while keeping an eye
out for anything genuinely strange.
After Jenkins and his colleagues have weeded
out sunspots and
other planet poseurs from the data, Marcy and
other astronomers use the Doppler wobble method with terrestrial telescopes to verify that the remaining
planet candidates, or «objects of interest,» are indeed
planets.
Is Earth a midget among
planets, or are there
other worlds
out there similar to our own?
Julia Fang and Jean - Luc Margot at the University of California, Los Angeles, wanted to find
out whether
other planetary systems are full, or if they also have unoccupied but stable orbital slots in between their
planets.
We set
out to make what are called spin - orbit measurements of
other planets.